Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Nina Kiriki Hoffman, from Issue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.As the oldest, I had to make sure I and my four sisters and little brother gave greetings to our parents in their first year under the ice.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #259 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.That morning, everywhere he drove he heard about the murder that wasn’t murder but business done by different name. “A dead incast in Pingree. Shot, tche.”More info »

By Damien Krsteski, from Issue #255 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.He stared into the flickering eyes of the monster he'd drawn, hypnotized, stricken, and his shivering stopped as grief became anger.More info »

By Blaine Vitallo, from Issue #253 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Reilitas has dreamed of the snake, dreamed of hammering its beautiful onyx scales into ceremonial knives, shields, the faces of clocks.More info »

By A.J. Fitzwater, from Issue #252 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dan Rabarts.Taking her place in line, the marmot graced her pirate lover with a toothy smile. "Can't let you have all the fun, Cinny."More info »

By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineSlowly, Ukeme read the first row of characters: a knotty point of customary law. The second called for an essay on the Osun Republic’s conquest of Benin two centuries before. The third...More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Now I understood my impression of the magistrate’s reaction. More, I did not miss Mei Li’s implication—it applied to herself as much as the magistrate.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.More info »

By Rahul Kanakia, from Issue #249 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by David D. Levine.Sometimes the crimes were egregious. In these cases I ripped up the would-be magicians with no compunctions. But other times...More info »

By Cassandra Khaw, from Issue #248 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Mei Huang repeats the rite so many times it becomes indistinguishable from breath, and still every iteration ends with the soldier dead.More info »

By J.W. Alden, from Issue #247 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineAdia's fingers found the blade hidden in the folds of her kirtle. She dismissed the pang of guilt at the thought of what she now must do.More info »

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."More info »

By Rich Larson, from Issue #245 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The cube is like nothing she’s ever seen, an enormous black box composed of a thousand shifting slivers breaking and melding, rippling, almost liquid.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #244 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.She had been a young cat when the Fleet Lords burned the City of High Bells.More info »

By Nin Harris, from Issue #243 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineMalaguena refuses to play most of the pieces dedicated to the other moons, but this sonata, composed for the Swan Moon, accompanies our evenings.More info »

By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #242 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I won on my first attempt when I was fourteen; so long ago it seems meaningless.More info »

By Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, from Issue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.And with that I gave up so many things, so many golden sunrises and so many lingering sunsets.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #238 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Dangling from a rope two hundred feet above the rooftops of Râu Tare, I find myself questioning the decisions that have led me to this point.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #237 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Serah avoids his eyes. "I've been pregnant a long time," she says after a while. "The baby won't come."More info »

By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #236 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThere was a letter addressed to him and beneath it a chaos of paper, the slips and sheets and scraps in no obvious order.More info »